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Week One..........gone.

Wow what a week that was.
Then the weekend went .........whoosh.
Saturday it was off to State Fair.
We parked at the mall and then took the special fair bus directly to the festivities.
Having met Gary in there we took in all the usual fun.
It seems they come up with more and more food that is "on a stick" every year.
Although the big new thing this year was
Krispy Kreme Cheeseburger.
This comprised a doughnut (instead of a bun) filled with a cheeseburger. For an extra dollar you could have chocolate covered bacon in there too.
Believe it or not there was a queue of people waiting to buy these.

Philip wore the SpongeBob t. shirt that we bought him for his birthday.
Bless.
It was the most popular he has ever been.
Every few yards a child would yell......."There's SpongeBob".
The funniest incident was on the bus coming home.
I was sitting next to Lauren and Philip had an empty seat next to him.
An elderly couple got on and were looking for seats. The lady found one and then loudly ordered her husband to "go up the back and sit next to SpongeBob".
Lauren and I had a fit of the giggles.
The fair was brill. Lots of animals, lots of food, lots of rides, lots of music, lots of beer and lots of toot to spend money on.
We only saw about a quarter of it before we were exhausted.
They did have a dinosaur exhibit too which was very well done.

Sunday it was Discovery World.
We had never been there before. It is a huge new building, right on the lake front.
You could look out over the lake and it was beautiful.
One side of Discovery World is dedicated to all things aquatic. This had aquariums with a tunnel you could walk through and some of the floors were glass so that the fish swam under you too.
It was quite unnerving to walk over them at first.
Then there was the touch pool.
This had rays & horseshoe crabs one side and sturgeon the other side.
The sturgeon were big and acted just like puppies, rolling over for a belly rub.
We couldn't get Lauren away from those.

The other side is all about the sciences. Lots of hands on stuff.
We had a blast in there but then had to go back to the fish so she could play with the sturgeon again.
Lastly it was the gift shop.
As is usual the stuff in there was way overpriced and I managed to convince Lauren to buy just one thing instead of wasting more money on "old toot".

By the time we got home the weekend had gone and we were all worn out.
Today we haven't been anywhere but Lauren is going to play golf with Philip when he comes home from work.
There is a small par 3 course near here that she should enjoy.
She is more chuffed that my clubs have a little trolley that she can pull.
I bet she will like dragging that around more than playing golf.

posted by Sue Banks @ 2:24 PM